Still-Life Stylist

Job Introduction

Are you looking for a new challenge that gives you the chance to get creative and use your passion for Still-Life styling? Looking for a company that wants to help further your career, as well as provide you with an exciting, inspiring and fun place to work?  

If the answer to all of these questions is ‘yes’ then you’re just the kind of person we’re looking for! 

Role Responsibility

As our Still-Life Stylist, you will help implement and interpret the Selfridges creative vision through the styling of the Online Product imagery. You will maintain best practices, not only to achieve very high standards of styling and imagery but also to maintain agreed efficiencies within the studios. Working collaboratively with Stylists, Online Styling Manager and Online Assistant Styling Manager and Photography teams to continually strive to improve not only the quality of the images being shot, but also the productivity and efficiency within the studio.

As a Still-Life Stylist, you will:

• Maintain and encourage a positive ‘can do’ atmosphere in the studios which is conducive to high production levels and excellent quality of work.
• Lead and complete daily product styling on still life sets, in line with the Selfridges Style Guides.
• Work as part of an efficient on set team and smooth and productive workflow.
• To ensure excellent knowledge of the Selfridges Style Guides in order to maintain visual quality and consistency across all images taken for the website.
• Ensuring consistency of processes and imagery as well as output of each set. 
• Obtain a wide variety of product styling techniques.
• Brand awareness across both luxury, contemporary and high street.
• Meeting daily production targets whilst maintaining high levels of styling.
• Ownership of product reshoots to ensure consistency across site.
• Attention to detail is crucial when styling products, maintaining a very high quality of imagery across the board is essential.
• Work with the Styling Management to come up with any styling improvements that can be made within the studio, which could improve the images or the shoot efficiencies.
• To maintain efficiencies in the studios and ensure Senior Stylists and Styling Management receives scheduled updates on what is happening in the studios.
• Making sure products are handled with care throughout the entire studio process.
• Responsible for briefing freelancers who come in on the daily Best Practices for the Product Stylist role, ensuring consistency of processes and imagery as well as output of each studio. 
• Good brand and competitor knowledge.
• Able to troubleshoot, show initiative, and have the confidence to make decisions where necessary.
• Ensuring Styling operations are continuously updated and maintained (steamers, dry clean, consumables etc.)
• Maintain a tidy and workable set, ensuring at the end of the day it is clear of all products and ready for the following days shoot.
• Able to lift and carry clothing.
• Work closely and maintain good relationships with studio team, including photographers, Stylists and Assistants, freelancers and product handling team.
• Work efficiently and develop cross departmental relationships.
• Lead and inspire, living the Selfridges values.

The Ideal Candidate

This role requires a person with a good mix of organisational skills and attention to detail while also having thorough brand knowledge and a strong Creative eye. Alongside this, you will be:

• Experienced. You will have extensive experience styling still-life product, and a good understanding of best practices
• Good communication skills and able to take direction well
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Good knowledge of designers, brands, trends and competitor knowledge
• Strong organisation skills, with a pro-active ‘can do’ attitude
• Good time management within a busy and pressured environment
• Flexible in your approach
• Able to take initiative, as well as work part of a wider team

About the Company

Our Creative Spirit 

We are more than a shop. We are a social space where culture and commerce collide to release an energy that we call the Selfridges spirit. We are here to make our world brighter, and everyone is welcome. 

Our Awards Cabinet 

We’re not ones to brag, but since you asked...Selfridges has won the award for The World’s Best Department Store an unprecedented four times at the IGDS awards, with an additional award for the Best Sustainability Campaign. We were also recognised as a ‘Best 25 Big Company to Work For 2020’ as awarded by The Sunday Times.

Our Future 

Since 1909 we have been at the forefront of retail and today our stores in London, Manchester and Birmingham – alongside selfridges.com and the Selfridges App – continue to redefine the way we shop and socialise. As a Selfridges team member, you will learn what it takes to consistently drive innovation, success and amazing customer experiences. 

Everyone is welcome

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive working culture, and we see this as key to our success and our working culture. Here at Selfridges, everyone is welcome - irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age or disability, we stand by equal opportunities for all. We are diverse, we are inclusive, we are Selfridges.

The Fun Stuff  

There are lots of reasons to be excited about joining Team Selfridges – from our fantastic team member communities to volunteer days and behind-the-scenes Selfridges experiences throughout the year. 

Other benefits and rewards include:

• Generous bonus and/or commission scheme 
• Discounted gym memberships 
• Pension contributions  
• Annual travel pass and cycle to work schemes 
• Up to five paid volunteering days
• Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development

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